Wednesday, June 13, 2012

All the best

Wow, so Father's Day is my first holiday since beginning challenges, and it got a little overwhelming this week! There are so many challenges about making a card for Father's Day! To see the list of blogs I'm linking to for Father's Day challenges, look at the end of the post. I think I did ok on this card, because my husband went way beyond his usual "oh, that's nice" comments when I showed him this one. He asked questions about it and said a few times "I really like it." I might have even gotten a "wow." ;) Cards for guys are hard, so it was feedback much appreciated.

I used Wall Decor and More for this card, because I wanted something that was masculine yet had enough flair that I wouldn't feel the need to bling it up too much. I actually cut the layers three times instead of two- first I cut the main image with blue, then layered the shifted image (green) ON TOP of the main image instead of underneath it, then cut the main image again in white and only used the sails and flag to layer on top of the green. The flag is colored in with a sharpie to give it a base of red underneath the burgandy stickles. I tried about 100 different patterned papers with this card, and none looked as good as sticking it straight on the kraft color, so I added this green tag that I've had forever (I want to say it came with an old Paper Pizazz pack, maybe?) so there wasn't a big empty spot in the corner.

I stamped the sentiment on the front with Joy's Life Everyday Occasions stamps. I like these because you can be creative with the sentiment, and have it say whatever you want. I can stamp "Happy Father's Day" on the inside with the matching Holiday Occasions set. My husband really likes when there are sentiments on the outside and inside of cards, and clearly I like his approval on my masculine cards. I even got to use my new brown ink (it's just the Hobby Lobby brand, but it's the small things that make life exciting).

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